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It is Monday, August 31st, at 6:00 p.m.

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I am Jeffrey Wooden. I'm joined tonight

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by Mrs. Westfall. Miss Hickman could not

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be with us tonight. We have one item on

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our agenda.

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We are revisiting a recommendation to

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council regarding authorizing the

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director of public service and safety to

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enter into a professional services

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services agreement with American

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Structure Point for the redesign of

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phase one and phase three at Duke Park

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for cost not to exceed $615,000.

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This was recommended by the park board.

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Mr. Tinnerton, can you give a rehash for

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those who may not have been here last

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week?

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» Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You had

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asked that this go to another committee

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with the opportunity to look at uh

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our recommended

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proposal, American Structure Point. We

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did include an amended packet, a revised

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packet, that proposal.

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Uh it's fairly straightforward. Um

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American Structure Point had

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drafted a Park and Recreation Master

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Plan that was adopted by the the park

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board.

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The first priority that they that the

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council and the Park and Recreation

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boards decided was to do a deep dive

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into

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the Duke Park and look at any kind of

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redesign to make that park more

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efficient, especially when it came to

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multi-purpose fields as well as baseball

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fields

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while keeping the other amenities that

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we have at the park and perhaps

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improving some of them.

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The 2026 budget did include an

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allocation or does include an allocation

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for phase one and phase three.

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The

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the staff as well as a couple members of

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the park board um

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did um

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issue a request for qualifications, an

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RFQ. We received nine different

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proposals. They evaluated, scored, uh

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analyzed and scored those, um

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interviewed the top five firms that

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submitted. Uh after that first set of

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interviews, they narrowed it down to

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three uh interviews. Um

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ultimately, unanimously

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um recommending to the park board uh

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American Structural Point, who again had

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done the um

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park and recreation master plan and was

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fairly familiar with

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a lot of the elements and the issues

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that uh we uh the council is uh trying

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to address.

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Um it was a unanimous decision of the

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park board to recommend American

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Structural Point. Um the criteria in the

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ORC RFQs are done a little bit

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differently than uh

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uh construction bidding.

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and uh uh but the criteria is the best

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and most qualified. And in doing the

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scoring, um

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the staff and the park board came to the

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conclusion that American Structural

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Point was the uh the best and most

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qualified. Uh it is a uh

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a big a large firm. It is um it has done

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other projects for the uh city,

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including their work on the UDC. The

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project team is in the uh

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uh the project team uh

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that is being proposed for uh from

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Structural Point to do this project is

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not uh the same lead on the uh on the

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UDC

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uh zoning sign. It's uh and uh

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uh subdivision regulations primarily. Um

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and so they are separate divisions.

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Um there's uh leadership overlap, of

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course, but um the um

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uh the the daily

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uh and the the front line uh folks are

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are different as well. You did mention

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615,000. That's what the That's what

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Structural Point estimated. That's the

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number that they gave us.

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And phase two would be to for the

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council to look at the design and then

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authorize creating construction

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documents so that we can go to the next

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step. Why it went phase one, three, and

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then two, I don't know. I

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not sure why they they did it that way,

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but that that is the way.

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We are not asking for emergency

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legislation.

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» Uh I asked Mr. Davis last week, but the

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rough time that would be 8 months that

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would they would be in the design phase

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before we would see anything back. And

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after that point in time, would we have

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public hearings on the design to allow

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the public input on what they they came

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up with?

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» Uh you could.

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you know, it

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Whatever would come back to the to the

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committee, if that's committee of the

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whole, if it's this committee, that's up

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to the president of council, but that

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would be an opportunity to

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uh unveil all the designs and then get

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some as much as input as you'd like to

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get.

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» Okay.

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Uh Mr. Westfall, do you have any

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follow-up questions?

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» Was my concern whether we would get

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public input.

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» Uh do any other members of council have

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any questions?

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Do any members of the public have any

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questions or comments?

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Please come forward. Name and address,

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please.

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» Dana Schilling, uh 1 West Franklin

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Street, Troy, Ohio.

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Um I just want to say I mean, I think

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it's you got wonderful parks in out at

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Duke already. I've had grandkids playing

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ball, soccer,

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dogs in the park, and all that stuff.

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You know what you don't have is the Troy

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Park that anybody that comes to town and

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might meander around sees. The Troy Park

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needs some work. To spend more money at

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Duke

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before you do anything to the play

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equipment at the main park is is kind of

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I just kind of silly.

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For one thing, even if you before I said

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even if you just fix the surfacing

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I don't know if you've ever been to

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Vandalia, to Sydney, to

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Springfield all of those have like a

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a foam I can't I it's not foam but it's

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kind of a soft material.

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Um or they have turf.

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This isn't even handicap accessible in

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in um

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wood chip stuff.

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Um I think you ought to consider at

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least if you can't afford playground

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equipment fix the surfacing where

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the kids are playing so it's a

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uh you know, you get tired of coming

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home with your grandkids or great

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grandkids with

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all these wood chips all over them and

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it's just a mess. So, would you consider

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doing something with that?

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» So, you said Troy Park. Do you mean

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Community Park?

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» The municipal park Troy Park.

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» All right. Across from uh Hobart Arena.

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» Right. That one. Yeah. The municipal

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» So, um there is funding in this year's

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budget. Uh we recently replaced the

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playground equipment at Duke Park last

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year.

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Uh we are replacing Community Park's

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playground equipment this year which

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will also include a um a turf surface

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uh underneath it. So, that all will be

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upgraded.

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» For both sides of that then?

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» Uh I haven't seen the whole footprint

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and and what it's going to look like but

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it'll be a different configuration and

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so you know

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I there's one amenity that that

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everyone wanted to keep out there as

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part of the playground equipment but

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everything else is being replaced. It

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will be ADA accessible and it will have

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the uh

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» The turf surface.

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» And at some point in time you were

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talking about putting a splash pad in. I

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can't think of a better place to put a

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splash pad in than at the municipal park

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where

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kids that don't have a lot of money

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they they live close by they can ride

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their bicycles and just come by splash

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and wet like today would be great. But

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you know there's plenty of room in that

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area to do that too.

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And still not involve the you know if

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you want to play frisbee or something I

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don't think it's going to bother that

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but well thanks for that. I'm glad

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you're considering it. Would you please

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make a trip down to Vandalia especially

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down behind Kroger's the brand new one

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they put in and see that has a splash

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pad but it also has the

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uh I think it has turf there. And that

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healthy school is another one that would

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really be good to research so you can

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see what they're doing and thank you.

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» Thank you.

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» We still are waiting uh the final park

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and recreation master plan uh to come in

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from uh the park board that needs to go

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to them first with all the amenities. If

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you guys recall I'm sure many of you

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filled out the survey last summer. Uh

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they're still working through all of

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that to see what amenities were kind of

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where they were ranked and what we want

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to do. At the top of that list was Duke

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Park um

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which is why we're here today

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uh with the flooding of the baseball

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field so that's where that that survey

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has led us here to today so

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Do any other members of the public have

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any other questions or comments?

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» Do you have a recommendation?

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» To move forward?

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» Uh it is unanimous to move forward. Is

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there anything else to come before the

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committee tonight?

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» No, sir.

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» We stand adjourned.